aspen | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind | - |
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ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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(noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
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dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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(verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
(verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
(verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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(verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
(verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
(verb) make deeper | - |
happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
(verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
(verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
hempen | (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: fibrous |
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lumpen | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpish, unthinking |
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misshapen | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed |
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open | (adjective) ready or willing to receive favorably | Synonyms: receptive |
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(adjective) affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed | Synonyms: unfastened |
(adjective) affording free passage or access | - |
(adjective) (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints | - |
(adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: overt |
(adjective) used of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: opened |
(adjective) ready for business | - |
(adjective) not having been filled | - |
(adjective) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps | Synonyms: loose |
(adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: candid, heart-to-heart |
(adjective) not requiring union membership | - |
(adjective) open to or in view of all | - |
(adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: capable, subject |
(adjective) without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition | - |
(adjective) having no protecting cover or enclosure | - |
(adjective) affording free passage or view | Synonyms: clear |
(adjective) with no protection or shield | Synonyms: exposed |
(adjective) accessible to all | - |
(adjective) not sealed or having been unsealed | Synonyms: opened |
(adjective) not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought | Synonyms: undecided, undetermined, unresolved |
(adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: assailable, undefendable, undefended |
(noun) information that has become public | Synonyms: surface |
(noun) a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play | - |
(noun) a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water | Synonyms: clear |
(noun) where the air is unconfined | Synonyms: open air, out-of-doors, outdoors |
(verb) make available | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) become available | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) make the opening move | - |
(verb) cause to open or to become open | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) become open | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: spread, spread out, unfold |
(verb) display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer | - |
(verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, give |
(verb) start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc. | - |
(verb) have an opening or passage or outlet | - |
pen | (noun) female swan | - |
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(noun) a writing implement with a point from which ink flows | - |
(noun) an enclosure for confining livestock | - |
(noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: penitentiary |
(noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: playpen |
(verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
pigpen | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigsty, sty |
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playpen | (noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: pen |
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reopen | (verb) open again or anew | - |
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ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
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(verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
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(verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
(verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
(verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
(verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
(verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
(verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
steepen | (verb) make steeper | - |
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(verb) become steeper | - |
unopen | (adjective) not open | Synonyms: closed, shut |
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unshapen | (adjective) incompletely or imperfectly shaped | Synonyms: unshaped |
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